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Another week, another interesting article: this time about converting coffee waste into biofuel. A treatment plant has been built in the Cauca Valley, Columbia, which plans to convert mucilage into bioethanol. The plant is currently in the testing phase but once fully operational it’s expected to produce 800-1000 litres of fuel per day. Not only will this aid coffee farmers as they’ll be paid for their waste (and I assume will have access to cheap biofuel) but also the environment, as now the waste has value, it will hopefully no longer be dumped in local rivers.
You can read more about this interesting project here.
Pressurised filter baskets rather disappointingly appear to be taking over the espresso machine market. Gaggia now ship them as standard; Ascaso put them on their ‘Versatile’ machines; not to mention all the small domestic appliance manufacturers who dabble in a bit of everything, including espresso machines. The worse thing is that often these manufacturers ‘pretend’ that these filters are in someway better than the standard ones. The same standard filters which are used by professionals in every (well I hope every) coffee shop throughout this land. Read the rest of this entry »
We’ve taken stock this week of some new stove-top espresso makers from a company called Tescoma. Their Paloma coffee maker looks set to compete head to head with Bialetti’s stalwart the Moka Express. They both look pretty similar; they’re both made from aluminium; but the Paloma is cheaper in price and comes with an amazing 3 year warranty (as apposed to 1 year on most Bialetti models). Read the rest of this entry »
We are now stocking the Aerobie AeroPress in our webshop. The coffee maker is £21.95 and the Micro-filters are £3.95 for a pack of 350.
What is the AeroPress
For me, the AeroPress has to be one of biggest breakthroughs in coffee making history since Achille Gaggia gave birth to the modern day espresso machine. I’m not the only one to think these coffee makers are great, a group of coffee professionals where so inspired that they started the World AeroPress Championship (WAC). Read the rest of this entry »
I was reading an article over the weekend about how the coffee industry needs to address water usage. How they need to promote things such as responsible farming practices. One example given was of a group of farmers from Hama, Ethiopia. For years they had been discarding the pulp part of the coffee cherry in the local river. The pulp would then decompose giving off toxins which polluted local water supplies. It wasn’t until a team from Nestle met them and explained that the pulp shouldn’t be wasted, as it actually makes a very good compost, that they stopped. Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations to Alejandro Mendez of El Salvador for wining the WBC. It seems a fitting end to the first WBC to be held in a coffee producing country that it was won for the first time by a barista from a coffee producing country. Read the rest of this entry »
The World Barista Championship kicks off in Bogotá, Columbia tomorrow. It will be the first time in WBC history that a coffee producing country has hosted the event. It might also be the first time that the winner comes from a coffee producing country (Raul Rodas, from Guatemala came close last year finishing 2nd).
This year, I think it will be hard to predict a winner. Out of the top 12 baristas in last years competition, only 1 is competing again this year: Stefanos Domatiotis who finished 6th. So the competition looks pretty open. Read the rest of this entry »
We are now stocking Gaggia espresso machines and coffee grinders. The prices are as follows:
We’ve taken stock this week of some new stove-top espresso makers from a company called Tescoma. Their 
I was reading an article over the weekend about how the 
The World Barista Championship kicks off in Bogotá, Columbia tomorrow. It will be the first time in WBC history that a coffee producing country has hosted the event. It might also be the first time that the winner comes from a coffee producing country (Raul Rodas, from Guatemala came close last year finishing 2nd).
